BY T. G. SLOANE. 431 



37. NOTONOMUS ILLIDGEI, n.sp. 



Elongate-oval. Head moderate (3 mm. across eyes): prothorax 

 rather long; sides not sinuate; posterior marginal puncture on 

 inner side of marginal channel near basal angle : elytra strongly 

 striate; interstices convex in <£, depressed in Q, third 2-punctate, 

 eighth much wider than ninth on basal half. Colour obscure, in 

 9, black with a faint subviridescent tinge at sides of pronotum 

 near base ; elytra with ninth interstice and lateral channel 

 cupreous; in <£, head and prothorax with a faint cupreous tinge, 

 elytra obscurely cupreous, lateral channel brightly so. 



Prothorax broader than long (3*7 x 4*35 mm.), broadest about 

 middle, wider at base (3-3 mm.) than apex (3); sides lightly and 

 evenly rounded; anterior angles obtuse, not prominent; base 

 truncate; basal angles obtuse (a little marked); lateral border a 

 little wider towards base than apex, extending on each side to 

 lateral basal impressions, these deep, narrow; median line strongly 

 impressed. Elytra truncate-oval (8-4 x 5-1 mm.) ; apical curve 

 lightly sinuate on each side ; basal border strongly raised at 

 humeral angles ; striae simple ; interstices in <J strongly, in 9 

 lightly convex near apex, tenth short. Intercoxal declivity of 

 prosternum flat, of mesosternum hardly concave. Length, 13-15*5; 

 breadth, 4-8-5-1 mm. 



Hab.- Queensland: Dalveen(Sloane; December). Coll. Sloane. 



Allied to N. prominens SI., from which it differs by its smaller 

 size; prothorax not so strongly rounded on sides, and not sinuate 

 before basal angles, these less strongly marked, and with the 

 border not thickened; onychium of tarsi not setulose beneath, etc. 

 From all other allied species, it differs conspicuously by pronotum 

 not transversely striolate, or by having the eighth interstice of 

 elytra not narrow. 



38. N. nitescens SI. — Specimens from Ebor (Tillyard and Cox) 

 are more brightly coloured; and have the prothorax less rounded 

 on sides, less ampliate at widest part, and less strongly narrowed 

 to both base and apex (3-5 x 3-8, apex 2-7, base 3*15 mm.). This 

 form, from Ebor, should perhaps be regarded as a variety. 



